Embroidery-frame



(No Model.)

J. ANRIG.

EMBROIDERY FRAME. No. 437,912. Patented Oct. 7, 1890.

WTNEEEEE INVENTR RWI/M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH ANRIG, OF NEWARK, NEV JERSEY.

EMBROIDERY-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,912, dated October7, 1890.

Application iiled .Tune 28, 1890. Serial No. 357,071. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, JOSEPH ANR1G,of Newark, Essex county, New Jersey,haveinvented an Improved Embroidery-Frame, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an embroideryframe which Will tightly hold andstretch the cloth, the frame being more particularly intended formachine-ernbroidery.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement, morefully pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a face view of the outer frameb; Fig. 2, an end view of both frames superposed; Fig. 3, a face view ofthe inner frame a; Fig. 4f, an end view thereof; Fig. 5, a face view ofboth fralnes superposed with the cloth in place; Fig. 6, an enlargedcross-section through such frames.

The letter d represents a frame of suitable shape and of concave forniin cross-section that is to say, the frame is hulged toward the spaceincloscd by it, while its outer surface forms a continuous encirclinggroove.

b is a second frame composed of five links that are connected by fourjoints b. The

two end or disconnected links b2 h3 overlap one an other and may beconnected by a pin b4 on link b2, entering a hole b5 on link b3. Thenthe end links are thus intel-locked, the frame Z9 is closed,

The frame b is made of such a size that it ts snugly into the groove offrame a. For this purpose, also, the inner face of frame b is bulgedinward or made convex to correspond to the concavity of frame d.

In use, the cloth c to be be embroidered is placed over frame (L, andthe frame b is opened and placed around frame a. As the frame b is drawntogether and closed, it. Will enter into the concavity of frame a, andWill bend the cloth between the frames into a curve, Fig. 6. Thus thecloth is stretched and held taut in a simple and eiective manner.

What I claim is- The combination of an inner concave frame a With anouter encircling frame h, fitting around the inner frame and composed ofa series of links and ot' joints b', that connect the links, the two endlinks b2 b3 being adapted to interlock, substantially as specified.

JOSEPH ANRIG.

Vitnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, A. J oNGHMANs.

